• The defensive line and using the goalkeeper
• Attributes needed for the role
• Creating space
• Defensive transition
• Maintaining control to create more chances
In Enzo Maresca’s Masterclass, the
@LCFC
head coach explains how he uses inverted full-backs... 🇮🇹🦊
#LCFC
• Liverpool’s counter-press
• Playing against Lionel Messi
• The difference between pressing and chasing
In this masterclass,
@LFC
assistant manager Pep Lijnders explains the team’s tactical approach for their 4-0 Champions League semi-final comeback against Barcelona... 🔴👏
Guardiola: “Bielsa is the best coach in the world”
Simeone: “Bielsa taught me the most”
Pochettino: “He’s a genius”
Cruyff: “Bielsa’s Chile played the most attractive football in this World Cup”
Happy Birthday to former Leeds and now Uruguay head coach Marcelo Bielsa 🇦🇷🎂
Michael Carrick was appointed Middlesbrough manager with the club 22nd in the Championship.
Without a pre-season, he's implemented an attractive, possession-based playing style, won six out of nine games and taken the team into the playoff places. 🏴📈
#Boro
Guardiola "Bielsa is the best coach in the world”
Simeone "Bielsa taught me the most”
Pochettino “He’s a genius"
Cruyff “Bielsa’s Chile played the most attractive football in this World Cup”
Bielsa “If players weren’t human, I’d never lose”
Happy Birthday Marcelo Bielsa 🇦🇷🎂
• Carlo Ancelotti
• José Mourinho
• Pep Guardiola
• Thomas Tuchel
Thomas Tuchel becomes only the fourth manager to reach a Champions League semi final with three different teams or more. 🇩🇪4️⃣
#UCL
• His philosophy
• How he sets his team up both in and out of possession
• Inspired by
@PepTeam
’s Manchester City
• Why winning the second ball is so important
•
@19SCazorla
’s importance
@AlsaddSC
’s head coach Xavi’s masterclass... 👏🇪🇸
Hajime Moriyasu has now beaten both Hansi Flick and Luis Enrique, with Japan recording wins over Germany and Spain to top Group E.
Both victories came despite Japan being 1-0 down at half-time.🇯🇵😳
#JAPESP
Dortmund
• 3-0 vs Hertha
• 3-2 vs Bayern Munich
PSG
• 3-0 vs Nantes
• 5-1 vs Lyon
• 3-0 vs Reims
• 3-0 vs RB Leipzig
Chelsea
• 1-0 vs Manchester City
• 3-1 agg vs Real Madrid
• 2-0 vs Tottenham
Thomas Tuchel has never lost a semi-final as a head coach 🇩🇪
#CFC
🔵 Chelsea Premier League 2019/20 (via
@OptaJoe
)
Goals: 69 (3rd)
Expected goals: 71.1 (2nd)
Shots: 625 (2nd)
Conversion: 11% (11th)
Enter this man... 👇
• An intense high press
• Vertical and transitional play
• Wide forwards who attack at pace
• Focus on creating numerical superiority
• Short-passing game combined with direct play
Luis Enrique's playing style and principles analysed... 🇪🇸🧐
🇪🇸 Ahead of their Champions League tie with Barcelona in 2012, Chelsea noticed that Lionel Messi tended to drop most into the inside-right channel.
🔵 With this information, they created a box of five players to constantly surround Messi in so he had less space to play in.
Ange Postecoglou walked into the
#CelticFC
job with no experience of British football and off the club's worst season in over a decade.
He's now implemented his playing style, transformed the team and has just beaten rivals Rangers 3-0 to go top of the Scottish Premiership.☘️🇦🇺
• Love for
@FootballManager
• Head coach experience at 24
• Facing PSG
Our exclusive interview with 30-year-old
@StadeDeReims
head coach Will Still, who tells his unique coaching story which has led him to being a Ligue 1 manager on a remarkable 14-game unbeaten run... 👨💻🏴
• Coaching role at Porto aged 24
• Getting his first job at
@LFC
• Making Alexander-Arnold his captain
• Convincing Brendan Rodgers to promote him
• Instant connection with Jürgen Klopp
• Taking the NEC head coach job
Our exclusive interview with Pep Lijnders... 🇳🇱📜
#LFC
In February, Aliou Cissé became the first manager to lead Senegal to the Africa Cup of Nations title.
He’s now become the first Senegal manager since Bruno Metsu in 2002 to make the World Cup round of 16 – when he captained the team.🇸🇳🙌
#SEN
•
#ECUSEN
Hajime Moriyasu with a fantastic tactical change and set of substitutions as Japan beat four-time world champions Germany 2-1.
He changed his 4-2-3-1 to a 3-4-3 to generate more attacking threat, and duly saw his team beat Germany for the very first time. 🇯🇵🙌
#JPN
Rúben Amorim's
#SportingCP
beat Antonio Conte's Tottenham in the Champions League earlier in the season, and have now knocked Mikel Arteta's Arsenal out of the Europa League. 🟩⬜️
#UEL
• Goalkeeper coach: Martín Tocalli
• Assistant coach: Roberto Ayala
• Assistant coach: Walter Samuel
• Assistant coach: Pablo Aimar
• Head coach: Lionel Scaloni
The team behind the team. 👥👏
#ARG
•
#WorldCupFinal
#Arsenal
record nine wins from their first 10 Premier League games as Mikel Arteta leads the Gunners to their best start to a top-flight season ever... 🔴⚪️ 👏
Credit to Didier Deschamps for his proactive substations and bravely in taking off Giroud and Griezmann. Muani won the penalty, Coman retrieved the ball back which led to Mbappé's equaliser assisted by Thuram. 🇫🇷🔄
#FRA
•
#WorldCupFinal
🇵🇹 José Mourinho talks about how he created his game play for Inter's 2010 Champions League semi final against Barcelona by focusing on minimising the threat Lionel Messi posed and stopping his effective link-up play with right-back Dani Alves.
#QPR
beat top of the table Sheffield United to make it five wins in their last seven, moving up to third in the Championship table.
What a fantastic start to
@MichaelBeale
's career as a head coach. 🏴🔵⚪️
Guardiola "Biesla is the best coach in the world”
Simeone "Bielsa taught me the most”
Pochettino “He’s a genius"
Cruyff “Bielsa’s Chile played the most attractive football in this World Cup”
Biesla “If players weren’t human, I’d never lose”
Happy Birthday Marcelo Bielsa 🇦🇷🎂
Gurban Gurbanov has led
#Qaraba
ğ to the Europa League round of 16 for the first time in their history.
Another impressive achievement for the Azerbaijani head coach, who has won 14 trophies with the club since becoming the manager in 2008. 🇦🇿👏
#UEL
🗣️ "Mesut Özil between the lines was the perfect player to play there because he wanted to play in the hole and that is the toughest position to play."
Sean Dyche got Burnley promoted in his first full season and, despite relegation, took the club back up as Championship winners.
After six seasons in the Premier League, a 7th-placed finish and a Europa League campaign, he'll go down as one of their greatest ever managers. 💜👏
🗣️ "Arguably the greatest rearguard action ever by any team in the game."
Steve Holland on Chelsea qualifying for the Champions League final against Barcelona in 2012.
#CFC
#UCL
Brave high-line to push Argentina back, fantastic team pressing, resolute defending and quality in the final third. A brilliant performance from Saudi Arabia who come back to beat Lionel Messi's side 2-1 in their World Cup opener.
A Hervé Renard masterclass. 🇸🇦👏
#KSA
• Playing with Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry
• Operating in the double pivot and as a 10
• The 2005/06 Champions League run
• The team he enjoyed playing in the most
• Arsène Wenger’s brilliance
@Cesc4official
’s masterclass on how his role at
@Arsenal
evolved... 🔴🇪🇸
Steve Cooper became Nottingham Forest manager with the team bottom of the Championship, having lost 6 of their first 7.
He has since beaten Arsenal and Leicester in the FA Cup, won 25 league games and taken the club back to the Premier League for the first time since 1999. 🏴🌳
• Why he decided to go into coaching
• How Arsène Wenger has inspired his methodology
• Pep Guardiola’s 'aggression'
• José Mourinho’s ‘powerful’ man-management
• Ambition to coach in the Premier League
@Cesc4official
’s long read... 🇪🇸📜
• Took Mainz from the 2. Bundesliga relegation zone to 11th in the Bundesliga
• Consecutive league titles with Dortmund
• One of Liverpool’s greatest ever managers, winning 6 trophies, including the Champions League & the Premier League
Happy birthday Jürgen Klopp 🎂🇩🇪
#LFC
West Brom were 24th in the Championship on November 1.
Carlos Corberan has now led them to eight wins in the last nine games. They are one point off the playoff places. 🇪🇸📈
#WBA
• Herbert Chapman: 1930/31
• Tom Whittaker: 1947/48
• Arsene Wenger: 2004/05
• Mikel Arteta: 2022/23
Mikel Arteta becomes only the fourth
#Arsenal
manager to win their first five games of a top-division season. 🔴🖐
In his masterclass, Graham Potter reveals the tactics that inspired his Östersunds team to a famous 2-0 win over Galatasaray in the first leg of their Europa League qualification tie in 2017... 🏴👏
#ÖFK •
#UEL
Since Sérgio Conceição has been Porto manager they have beaten Roma, Juventus, AC Milan, Atlético Madrid and now Arsenal in a Champions League game. 🇵🇹🟦⬜️
#FCPorto
•
#UCL
• Won Sporting Lisbon their first league title in 19 years
• Currently joint top of the Primeira Liga
• 75% win ratio as a manager
What a fantastic job the 36-year-old Rúben Amorim is doing as his side beat Beşiktaş 4-0 to keep their Champions League campaign alive 🇵🇹👏
When Kieran McKenna was appointed Ipswich Town head coach, they were 12th in League One and Southampton were 15th in the Premier League.
Tonight they've won at St Mary's, meaning they've now won six of their first seven games back in the Championship.🚜📈
#ITFC
José Mourinho's first Premier League game was against Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United.
Chelsea won the game 1-0 and the Portuguese manager says he is confident that his team wouldn't have conceded, even if the game went on for 900 minutes.
🗣 "Barcelona's philosophy has always struck home with me. They had a clear way of playing, defined around having the ball."
Brendan Rodgers on his ❤️ for Barcelona.
West Brom are one of only two Championship teams who haven't spent any money on transfer fees this season.
Despite this, Carlos Corberán continues his incredible job with the Baggies who are now seven points clear of seventh in the play off places. 🇪🇸🟦⬜️
#WBA
“Pep would say he is the most defensive manager in the world.”
@M8Arteta
on why Pep Guardiola would say his playing style is defensive and how he gets coaching inspiration from other sports and companies...🧠🇪🇸
📹
@SkySportsPL
• 2003: AC Milan
• 2005: AC Milan
• 2007: AC Milan
• 2014: Real Madrid
• 2022: Real Madrid
@MrAncelotti
is the first manager to reach five European Cup/Champions League finals and also the first manager to reach multiple finals with two different clubs. 🇮🇹🤨
#UCL
Coaches on the longest current unbeaten runs in Europe's top five leagues...
• Will Still (Stade de Reims): 15
• Xavi (Barcelona): 12
• Thomas Frank (Brentford): 11
• Philippe Clement (Monaco): 8
• Luciano Spalletti (Napoli): 7
• Didier Digard (Nice): 7
#SDR
In Sean Dyche's first masterclass, he talks us through how his
#BurnleyFC
team beat Liverpool at Anfield for the first time in 68 games, and explained his defensive approach and 'crunching the pitch'... 🟣👏
#TwitterClarets
Wolves have now won five of their last six Premier League games. No team has won more in 2022.
Bruno Lage continues to do an outstanding job this season. 🇵🇹🐺
#WWFC
•
#WOLLEI
José Mourinho says that in his first Premier League game against Manchester United, he is confident his Chelsea team wouldn't have conceded a goal even if the game lasted 900 minutes.
John Mousinho...
• 2008: Started his badges at 22, while playing at Brentford
• 2021: Voted chairman of the PFA players’ board
• 2022: Achieved his Pro Licence
• 2023: Appointed Portsmouth head coach
• 2024: Won promotion to the Championship in his first full season
After Inter's Champions League knockout to Manchester United in 2009, José Mourinho gave the club's board a report of the players he would need to compete in the competition the following season.
A year later, Inter completed a historic treble.
Cardiff City pull off an impressive win at Sunderland that takes Erol Bulut's side up to seventh.
It's their best start to a season since 2017/18 under Neil Warnock, when they went on to be promoted. 🇹🇷🔵
#BlueBirds
Steve Clarke becomes the first Scotland manager to beat Spain since Jock Stein in 1984.
He also has the highest win percentage of any Scotland manager to have managed 30+ games. 🏴👏
#SCOESP
• DFB-Pokal winners with Dortmund
• Six trophies in two seasons at PSG including consecutive league titles
• Champions League, Super Cup and Club World Cup at Chelsea
• First
#Bundesliga
title with Bayern Munich
Thomas Tuchel win his 11th trophy as a manager 🟥🟦
#FCBayern
Manchester United have only lost one in their last 14 games, winning 11. They are now one point off fourth, with a game in hand.
Erik ten Hag is doing an excellent job making the team more cohesive and improving individual players, while getting results. 🇳🇱🔴
#MUFC
Unai Emery leads Aston Villa to their first European knockout win since 1998.
A reminder that Villa were 16th in the Premier League when Emery took over, they are now fourth and have beaten Ajax to reach the Europa Conference League quarter finals. 🇪🇸🟣
#AVFC
• Dealing with Kylian Mbappé & Neymar
• Folarin Balogun’s role in an effective high press
• Drawing Sergio Ramos into getting a red card
In Will Still’s masterclass, he gives a fascinating insight into
@StadeDeReims
’ draw with PSG in October 2022... 🏴👏
🔋
@FootballManager
Pep Guardiola...
“We’ve an Italian coach in the Premier League, De Zerbi, he’s changing many things in the English football. He’s producing wonderful football.
People said you can’t play the ball from defence in Premier League. He’s doing that, and incredibly well.” 🇮🇹🔵⚪️